The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
You have to take a deep breath and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play, allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
-Kelly White
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
